Tune in as Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar discuss their Black Hat presentation CloudBots: Harvesting Crypto Coins like a Botnet Farmer. They provide an overview of their presentation; what happens when computer criminals start using friendly cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Apps, Heroku, Amazon EC2 and Yahoo Pipes for malicious activities? Listen in …

Bishop Fox researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar described how they successfully used cloud technology to mine Litecoins at Black Hat earlier this week. Learn how they pulled off their stunt and what steps organizations can take to protect themselves in this IEEE Spectrum interview: How to Hack the Cloud to Mine Crypto Currency

It’s natural for cloud providers to offer free samples, but it turns out you can stitch together thousands of those free samples to create a massive botnet. Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar’s Black Hat session is featured in the SDN Central article: Black Hat Session Shows How to Build a Cloud Botnet for Free

Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar have discovered how to mine cryptocurrency for free. At Black Hat last week, the duo demonstrated how to create an automated email creating and account sign-up process to create a cloud botnet. Read more in this Deep.Dot.Web article: Mining Cryptocurrency With A Free Cloud Botnet, Why Not?